Fiction · 1866
Armadale
Armadale, first published in 1866, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Epigraph
- Note
- Prologue
- I — The Travelers
- II — The Solid Side of the Scotch Character
- III — The Wreck of the Timber Ship
- Book the First — I. The Mystery of Ozias Midwinter
- II — The Man Revealed
- III — Day and Night
- IV — The Shadow of the Past
- V — The Shadow of the Future
- Book the Second — I. Lurking Mischief
- II — Allan as a Landed Gentleman
- III — The Claims of Society
- IV — The March of Events
- V — Mother Oldershaw on Her Guard
- VI — Midwinter in Disguise
- VII — The Plot Thickens
- VIII — The Norfolk Broads
- IX — Fate or Chance?
- X — The House-Maid’s Face
- XI — Miss Gwilt Among the Quicksands
- XII — The Clouding of the Sky
- XIII — Exit
- Book the Third — I. Mrs. Milroy
- II — The Man Is Found
- III — The Brink of Discovery
- IV — Allan at Bay
- V — Pedgift’s Remedy
- VI — Pedgift’s Postscript
- VII — The Martyrdom of Miss Gwilt
- VIII — She Comes Between Them
- IX — She Knows the Truth
- X — Miss Gwilt’s Diary
- XI — Love and Law
- XII — A Scandal at the Station
- XIII — An Old Man’s Heart
- XIV — Miss Gwilt’s Diary
- XV — The Wedding-Day
- Book the Fourth — I. Miss Gwilt’s Diary
- II — The Diary Continued
- III — The Diary Broken Off
- Book the Last — I. At the Terminus
- II — In the House
- III — The Purple Flask
- Epilogue — I. News from Norfolk
- II — Midwinter
- Appendix
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About the author
1824–1889 · Victorian
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was born in Marylebone, London, the son of the landscape painter William Collins, and spent much of his boyhood in Italy and France before working as a clerk for a tea merchant and studying law at Lincoln's Inn, to which he was called in 1851 without ever practicing. His first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850; the next year he met Charles Dickens, and the two became close friends and frequent collaborators, co-writing several Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round together, among them The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) and, in 1867, No Thoroughfare. Collins's own novels, many first serialized in Dickens's magazines, include The Woman in White (1859–60), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868), often ranked among the first detective novels in English. He never married but lived for decades with Caroline Graves and her daughter, while also maintaining a second household with Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children; gout and a lifelong dependence on laudanum for the pain marked his later years. He died in London.
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